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Dr. Kuntzc's description of the subvariety repcns is just as 

 meaningless as the rest of his descriptions. He cites specimens, 

 however, \\z., Jones no. 1SS2 and iSSj. We have two sheets of 

 each and they evidently do not belong together. No. 1882 in 

 both the Columbia University and New York Botanical Garden 

 herbaria are in fruit, have simply ternate leaves with subentire 

 leaflets and must be referred to A. occidoitalis. No. 1887 in 

 flowers, on the contrary, has biternate leaves, and the leaflets are 

 coarsely toothed. Dr. Kuntze's subvariety is, therefore, " eine 

 zusammengesetzte " and according to some Germans, should be 

 ruled out. After the part that belongs to A. occidoitalis has been 

 removed, I have adopted the name for the residue. 



Utah: American Fork, 1880, M. E. Jones, iSSj (type in 

 herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 



Wyoming: Wolf Creek Cafion, 1896, Avoi Nelson, 22g^, in 

 part, the larger part belonging to A. tenuiloba. 



Atragene pseudoalpina (Kuntze) 

 Atrageiie OcJiotensis Gray, PI. Fendl. 4. 1849. Not Pall. 

 1874; A. alpina var. OcJiotensis A. Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. II. 33 : 

 241 ; Clematis alpina var. OcJiotensis S. Wats. Bot. King Exp. 5 : 

 4 ; C. alpina var. occidentalis A. Gray; Powell, Geol. Surv. Dakota, 

 531. 1880. ^ot Atragene occidoitalis Wova&ve\. 181 3; Clematis 

 psendoatragcne y psendoalpina Kuntze, Verh. Bot. Vcr. Branden- 

 burg, 26 : 160. 1884. 



As stated above, the name occidentalis should be used for A. 

 Columbiana Nutt. We are therefore obliged to adopt Kuntze's 

 varietal name. In the Synoptical Flora Clematis psendoatragcne 

 Kuntze is given as a synonym, but from the short description 

 neither of the varieties a, /9 or o can belong here. The var. « 

 normalis is evidently partly A. Americana and partly A. occiden- 

 talis as here understood. The var. n siibtriternata is A. tenuiloba 

 (A. Gray) Britton. What Clematis pseudoatragene var. (i Wender- 

 otJiioides^ is I do not know. In the Synoptical Flora the range 

 is given as extending from New Mexico to Dakota and Wash- 

 ington. I have not seen any specimens from any station north of 



* What a name ! Translated it would mean : A variety of the false Atragene 

 Virgin's Bower, resembling Mr. Wenderolh. 



